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SUPER

SSUE

RADAR

MEN

from the

MOON

YESTERDAY’S

SPACEMEN

THE FIRST

BUCK

ROGERS

ON FILM

UNITE in Chicago, over the Labor Day Holiday end of Aug. and
beginning of Sep. — at the WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVEN*
TION vi^here you can meet SPACEMEN'S Editor in person . . .
plus SPACEMEN’S publisher James Warren, as well as Theodore
Sturgeon (author of “Voyage to the Bottom of the sea
Robert Bloch, Robert Silverberg, Donald Wollheim, John W.
Campbell (author of THE THING) and a host of other prominent-
sci-fi personalities with whom you are familiar thru the pages
of SPACEMEN and FAMOUS MONSTERS. The legendary Space
Expert Willy Ley frequently attends such occasions. And Robot
Master Asimov. You owe it to yourself to get details at once
from 20th WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION, POB 4884.
Chicago 80, Illinois, and plan to.be in Chicago at the Pick-
Congress Hotel 31 Aug. thru 3 Sep. *,

THIS Is YOUR Spacial Invitation to attend this Special Event!

Collectors’ Pinup

^UCK

ROGERS

^ Leonard Spaulding
mixes Space & Fright in
“THE MONSTER MAKER”

Sjioeemefl

OCTOBiR, 19&2
Vol. 2, No. 1

FORREST J
ACKERMAN

editor-in-orbit and >
writer to the stars
CHESIEY
BONESTELL
honorary
stowaway
flight 33:5

SAMUEL M. SHERMAN
Contributing Editor
HARRY
CHESTER
production
pilot

MAURICE COOPER
Space Traffic Manager
LEE IRGANG
Circulation
BEN TAUBMAN
Advertising
JAMES
WARREN
interstellar
publisher

Serial Revisited

Old Spacemen
Never Die!

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gyro-motor racers were drawn in 1932 by Leo
Morey for a story called "Suicide Durkee’s
Last Ride" in Amazing Stories.

READER$!-LIKE TO BE INSULTED?

I have been rather amused by the quality of
your "fan" mail. More than 99.98% of the
"fans” are nothing more than kiddies who
have deluded themselves into thinking that
Trash (no — strike Trash — ^TRASH} like 12 TO
THE MOON and ANGRY RED PUNET are Sci-
ence Fiction. Mr. (?) Lane of Calif, names
Wells. Verne & Clarke as classic writers. He
probably read Classic Comics version of THE
TIME MACHINE and WAR OF THE WORLDS.
What about Simak, Pohl, Kombluth, Boucher,
Poul Anderson, Judith Merrill, Robt. Sheckley,
Alfred Bester, Isaac Asimov and all the others?
As for this Clod Mayo, he hasn’t grown out of
Space Opera yet! Just in case, I might men-
tion Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic Mars novels
and ask if he’s heard of them. They haven't
much plot and aren’t very sophisticated but
they supply the color & gore that his ^pe of
mentality requires. The basic problem is that
the number of good Imaginative Fiction films
made is in the fingers on your hand. Not even
the technically superb FORBIDDEN PLANET was
very good plotwise. For your kiddy readers'
information, the Jan. 1953 Astounding has an
excellent listing of a basic science fiction
library.

A. LODER
ALBANY, NY

SATISFIED SPACEMEN

Mike Kopesky of New Chicago, Mars

“12” TO THE MOON

I’m 12 and forever mooning about space. The
spacesuit I’m wearing in my picture is the

one that I ordered from your magazine. They
are the greatest. So is SM. I have every issue
to date and each one is better than the other.
The one thing i want to see most is some
exciting scenes from the discontinued Tom
Corbett TV series. I think the best write-up
on a movie was Collision Course (WHEN
WORLDS COLLIDE In No. 1.

MICHAEL KOPESKY
CHICAGO, ILL

HOBBY HINT

I have a little hobby which I would like to
pass on to every Spaceman & Spacewoman
reading these pages. I collect articles & any-
thing dealing with a movie or U.S. space de-
velopment and staple them in the book in
which they appear! At a Rocket Exposition in
Detroit, I got a little piece of actual solid
fuel used by S-11 (tank-destroying missile)
and put it on the inside cover of SM No. 1.
And on p. 42 of the same issue I stapled an
article on Battle in Outer Space. In SM No. 2,
1 stapled a 4-pg. article on WAR OF THE
WORLDS from Popular Science magazine. It
had a picture of the drawings that went into
the making of the Devil Ships. I made the
“full-sized miniature” on paper and put it in
a folder and glued it to the inside back cover.

JOHN FARION
DEARBORN, MICH;

WOODS TO FORREST

I am a fan of both Horror & Sci-Fi movies,
having no preference. I do appreciate an adult
level of writing. In SM No. 1. RIDERS TO THE
Stars and 12 to the moon had fair write-
ups; best were WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE and
BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE. No. 2: Tremendous
article on WAR OF THE WORLDS — in my opin-
ion the best article either SM or FM has ever
published. Tremendous synopsis of THINGS TO
COME but "How to Say Hello to a Martian”
was a complete waste of space. No. 3: Fair
cover. I wish you would feature famous sci-
ence fiction characters on your covers like
Robur the Conqueror, Capt. Nemo, Robby the
Robot, Ymir from 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH,
saucer men from EARTH VS. THE FLYING
SAUCERS, Michael Rennie from DAY THE
EARTH STOOD STILL, Commando Cody and
other such characters. You could also feature
famous vehicles such as the submarines from
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA and VOYAGE
TO THE BOnOM OF THE SEA, the flying ship
from MASTER OF THE WORLD, the Time Ma-
chine, and many different types of rocketships
& space stations used in films. “Training for
Space” another waste of space: this mag is
supposed to be about science fiction not
science-fact. THE LOST PLANET synopsis was
very complete — I would like to see more of
this ^pe of thing. .1 love to see the old
serials brought back to life and am very glad
to see a magazine like SCREEN THRILLS IL-
LUSTRATED has been created for this purpose.
Truly a great synopsis of GIRL iN THE MOON.
No. 4: Terrific cover— 1 wish you would always
have covers of this type. The advertising post-
er shown with “Return of the Saucers” was
very good— I wish you would put at least one
poster like this in every issue of SM & FM. I
like your Super Space page and especially
enjoyed the scene from MASK OF FU MANCHU.
“They Came from Other Space" was interest-
ing in the respect that the covers were true
classics. "The Ace of Space" was very good
and ail photos accompanying it were collec-

tors' items, especially the old advertising
poster. Both publications are getting better
& better. Keep up the good work.

ROBERT WOODS
GARDEN CITY, MICH,

THIS SPACE RESERVED

• Anyorre knowing whereabouts of head of
STEFFI MORTIMER (half-seen above) of Ramona,
Calif., please return to owner.

THE “KITCHEN SINK” CREATURE; OR,
CONFIDENTIALLY— IT SINKS!

Who are you trying to kid?! Nowhere in all
the lurid episodes of FLASH GOiRDON or FLASH
GORDON’S TRIP TO MARS, in no weird land
of Mongo nor in any obscure country of the
Red Planet did Buster Crabbe ever meet up
with any crazy mixed-up creature like you
pictured on the cover of No. 4. What gives?

MORT BLACK
CHAUDAIR, NY

• Actually the cover on our July Issue was
a collectors’ item— the first collaboration be-
tween Basil Gogos and . . . Jim Warren! Upon
completion of the lefthand portion of the
painting Gogos was suddenly stricken with
Venusian Virus and ordered to bed by his
physician with a 103° temperature. Originally
Emperor Ming was to be fighting with Flash
but suddenly the choice was either a half-
blank cover or—? So, borrowing a popping
eye from Peter Lorre, a bolt from the Frank-
enstein Monster, a swelled head from the
Metaluna Mutant, a horn from a triceratops
and the metallic arms from a robot, your re-
sourceful publisher himself rushed out and
got a Drew. It Yourself Kit and, with the
printer panting down his neck, painted the
“Immortal Kitchen Sink Creature" which so
many of you hailed as a Monsterpuss!

. . . WANT TO ^
WRITE US?

SPACUU. DaiVERY letters (which cannot
be answered personally) may be addressed
for consideration for publication to Astrid
Notte, 915 South Shethoume Dr., Los An-
geles 35, Calif.

In the Space of the Next Few Months
you will be Thrilling to New
Special Effect Films Forecast Here!

THE MAN FROM PLANET X puts the hex on Earth Girl.

One of 3 Spacemen who heads for Mars in West Ger.
many’s MISSION INTERPLAN.

stars over
Seattle

Better hop a rocket to the 21st Century
Worlds Fair! There, in Seattle, Washing-
ton, you’U find the 8th Wonder of the
World, the motion picture miracle known
as —

COSMO-VISION!

This million dollar celluloid marvel, a
year in the making, is the feature of the
SPACEARIUM, the circular theater where,
on the largest screen the world has ever
known, you’ll view the planet Mars, the
sim close up, Saturn’s glorious rings, even
a super nova, as you whiz 160 million miles
an hour on —

A JOURNEY TO THE STARS!

Animation . . . stop motion . . . optical
effects . . . stereo music ... all combine to
make this the most amazing movie experi-
ence of a lifetime.

750 people at a time grasp handrails as
they hear the countdown, feel the simu-
lated blastoff, hold their breaths during a
zip trip to the Moon. And — positively no
one seated during any portion of the pic-
ture. Standing Room Only, because — no
seats!

warning
to Mars

Beings of Barsoom, head for the stars —
the 3 Stooges are coming! Yes, Larry, Moe
& Curly Joe are scheduled to take Planet
4 apart in a space farce whose title has been
aimounced in some places as THE 3
STOOGES MEET THE MARTIANS and
in others as THE 3 STOOGES IN ORBIT.

trees of
terror

Roots that writhe like striking serpents
. . . plants of pern that pounce on people
. . . trees that are both carnivores & carmi-
bals — these are the new horrors lurking in
the Antarctic nite, creeping upon the un-
wary. These scary things are THE NIGHT
CRAWLERS. You can read all about these
delirium tree-mens in the Gold Medal pock-
etbook version known as “The Monster
from Earth’s End”, wherein a plane crazily
circles a little island, its cargo-bay open, its

"One of the best science fiction films ever produced" say European critics of SPACESHIP VENUS DOES NOT REPLY, the
East German-Polish picture of the 1970 flight to the "Planet of the Dead.”

' \ j

Quartet of Daring Explorers prepares to Discover Wiiat made THE ANGRY RED PLANET mad.

radio dead. “It seemed to hang in the air
for a moment and then it dived downward,
levelled and dipped again. It made a belly
landing on the stone runway with its wheels
still retracted. Tliere was a singular, dead
silence and then a shot rang out. The crew
of 2 and the 7 passengers had vanished, the
cargo was strewn about and the fuel tanks
had been emptied. And the pilot, after
landing, had blown his brains out.” Later,
the body of the dead pilot is — stolen? But
by whom — or what — and for what purpose?
Inside the eerie warehouse, where the
co^se should be, “Drake could hear some-
thing topple and fall He strained to listen
and heard another noise. It was a peculiar,
slithering noise. It was not footsteps, it was
not a padding made by paws. It was a sus-
tained, sKding, grating sound.” The sound
of the NIGHT CRAWLERS, creeping
closer & closer to your screen!

Coining, too, are the Triffids, the 10' tall
prowling beast-plants that attack a blinded,
panic-stricken humanity in the book and
have people all shook up on the screen in
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. John
Wyndham, of VILLAGE OF THE DAMN-
ED fame, wrote the terrific original novel.

the birds & the beasts

If THE BIRDS of Alfred Hitchcock don’t
swoop down from the sky in concert and
attack our heads & eyes, we may live to
see SPACE DEMON, the first production
of Arcadia-International, conceived & ex-
ecuted by Mark McGee, the teenage Bert
Gordon. This stop-action color short (in
which the action rarely stops) features the
unlikely combination of a spaceship & a
brontosaurus!

In THE GREAT ALASKAN MYSTERY.

The Perifron-~a ray machine fhaf can destroy aircraft,

quatermass 3 on tv

Our British correspondent, HWDouth-
waite, reports to us on the televersion of
QUATERMASS AND THE PIT. “Before
readers see the forthcoming film version,”
he says, “I’m sure they would like some
more information on the original telecast.”
Certain you will agree, we present Douth-
waite’s review:

THE PIT was the most lavish & costly
fantasy production yet screened by the
British Broadcasting Co. The ancient Mar-
tian rocketship, a superbly weird design,
was constructed of fibreglas and cost a con-
siderable sum.

Top BBC visual effects men Jack Kine
& Bernard Wilkie worked overtime on the
epic, producing a multitude of varied &
startling effects. “Prehistoric” Martians,

truly fantastic in conception, were animated
in a most lifelike way for a film sequence
depicting Martian racial suicide, acted out
millions of years ago on the Red Planet.

In one scene the evil influences radiating
from the alien ship galvanize a host of pipes
& power-lines into violent, ghostly action.
To achieve this effect, many tiny apertures
were drilled in the rubber tubings and com-
pressed air forced thru, causing them to
gyrate wildly as tho suddeidy possessed
with fife.

Another impressive effect was accomplish-
ed when a gravel pathway was made to rip-
ple as tho a pack of rats was running
beneath it; additional impact was added to
this chilling sequence by the skilfull use of
small, squeaking sounds.

The film version, if anything like the
original tele-serial, will be a classic all fan-
tasy fans win clutch to their hearts.

bn fheir Way to Mars, Abbott & Costello experience one of the Free Fall Wonders of Up-Side-Down-ness.

Fiendish creatures meets fiery finish in QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE.

sparks from the
spate-o-graph

When the eagle flies in BURN, WITCH,
BURN, you will scream. I just saw the pre-
view and I guarantee it. In the audience
was Chas. Nuetzel, co-author of “Count-
down to Doom”, who declared — “Really
great!” Another author present, Wm.
Stroup, echoed: “Excellent"’ Gray Daniels
phon^ my office the next day to confirm
that the climax had him sitting on the edge
of his seat. Chas. Beaumont, who co-wrote
the screenplay with Richard Matheson,
took his preteen son to see the preview,
and when the lights went up remarked,
“Well, I think Fritz Leiber should be
pleased with this version.” Leiher is the

author of the novel “Conjure Wife” on
which BURN, WITCH, BURN is based
and from which a previous picture, WEIRD
WOMAN, was (too) loosely adapted.

Watch for: BATTLE BEYOND THE
SUN . . . ROBINSON CRUSOE ON
MARS . . . MASCISTE AT THE CEN-
TER OF THE EARTH . . . OFF ON A
FLYING CARPET . . . MASCISTE,
KING OF SCIENCE FICTION . . . THE
SECRET OF THE TELEGRAM . . .
BARAN . . . WHEN THE SLEEPER
WAKES . . . FOOD OF THE GODS . . .
MICROSCOPIA . . . THE HUMAN VA-
POR . . . THE COSMONAUTS ... A
MARTIAN IN PARIS . . . THE PLANET
OF EXTINGUISHED MEN ... and RE-
TURN TO THE PHANTOM PLANET.

END

A couple of the Goodies moke ofF with the Baddies' raygun.

meet the cosf

First there’s Commando Cody (Geo.
Wallace), young scientist of the near fu-
ture known as the Sky Marshal of the Uni-
verse.

Next, his assistants Joan Gilbert (Aline
Towne) and Ted Richards (Wm. Bake-
weU).

Then there’s Retik (Roy Barcroft), the
Ruler of the Moon itself!

And such assorted cohorts & villains as
Graher, Krog, Zerg, Alon, Hank, Rohal,
Nasor, Bream and — Jones?

chapter #f

As the serial opens (“Moon Rocket”)
America’s military defenses are being sabo-
taged by a series of mysterious blasts. The
Government contacts Cody for help.

Commando Cody, who is in the midst of
perfecting a Buck Rogers-type flying suit
and a personal rocketship for lunar flight,
goes right to work and discovers 2 men are
about to blast a troop train with an atomic
gun,

'The villains escape but Cody discovers
they are using an unknown element in the
atomic weapon. By scientific deduction
Cody concludes that the substance must
have emanated from the Moon. To verify
his calculations he prepares to rocket to
our satellite.

ensuing episodes

In “Molten Terror” . . . “Bridge of
Death” . . . “Flight to Destruction” . . .
“Murder Car” & “Hflls of Death”, Cody
and his companions have many hazardous
adventures & narrow escapes, both on the

Men in the DESTINATIOK MOON-type spacesuiis are lunar villains.

Mad Moon Man prdMily display^ super-de-
strueiive deafh-ray Mechanism with which
his kind plans subjugation of the world.

quick wits, Cody manages to escape Retik’s
trap and, together with Joan & Ted, .at-
tempts to return to Earth in order to Warn
the world of the threat to its future if the
mad Moon dictator and his minions are not
overcome.

Can Cody elude Retik and his hench-
men?

Can he get back to Earth alive and in
time?

For the (illustrated) answers to these
thrilling questions, don’t fail to get the next
issue of SPACEMEN and read about & see
about the rest of the RADAR MEN FROM
THE MOON!

Earth and on the Moon.

On the Moon itself he first discovers an

unknown, hidden city — huge, waU-sur-

rounded — ruled over by Retik, whose mad

ambition is to conquer the world.

Also on the Moon — ^proving his theory &

justifying his flight there — be finds the se-

cret element of destruction used in the ray-

gun. It is named lunarium.

But in discovering lunarium. Commando

Cody is himself discovered — in Retik’s great

laboratory — ^and is made a prisoner.

return to earth?

Thru a combination of resourcefulness &

This is our Tell-a-Vision section:
YOU tell us what you want to see,
we provide the visions! Can't get
enough of Gort? Wont more of the
Midwich Cuckoos? Crazy about

Rotwang, the Mad Scientist of the
21st Century city METROPOLIS?
Address your requests to Dept.
4SJ. SPACEMEN, 915 So. Sher-
bourne Dr., Los Angeles 35, Calif.

THE DEVIL COMM4N0S, Karloff obeys! For DAN DeROMAINE this "man in the iron mask" scene
from the 1941 thriiier based on the book "The Edge of Running Water."

THE DEVIL GIRL FROM M4R5 (1955) poses
ogain for ART JOQUELLE of NYC and FRAN
SEAN of Hollywood. Calif.

For ABBIE HERRICK of Riviera Beach, Fla.
and STEPHEN GOLDBERG of NYC, this space-
man from THE MYSTERI/INS.

ORBITUARY

DEPr

Four floaters in free fall, and all
for PAUL LEIFFER— and thou-
sands like him! This great scene
from SPACE CADET took place
aboard the cosmic cruiser "Po-
laris," and there is Tom Corbett,
Astro, Roger Manning and Capt.
Strong^up in the air as usual!

When Martin Stephens (insert)
gets "that look," things happen
in VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED.
Here, one of the space-children's
enemies is set on fire. Foto re-
quested by HARRY BEYNON &
WYNNE DOMME.

Remember thrilling episodes like
"Hydrogen Hurricane," "Atomic
Peril" & "Destroyers of the
Sun?" NEAL DALEVIT does, from
Republic's COMMANDO CODY.
and here’s a scene to fulfill his
request.

Spaceship "Priede" is lowered
into her liquid bath preparatory
to being launched to Luna. From
Fritz Lang's immortal WOMAN
fN THE MOON for OSCAR
ESTES. PATRO VILCHJO, LILLY
LaTAYE, GERTRUDE SURUAM &
ALAN GLASSER.

ORBirUARV DEWIMEISir

TERROR

FROM

THE

TWILIGHT

ZONE

He came from en alien planet,
this giant with a giant's appe-
tite. Fried or fee? The world did
not knew until too late, until the
title of his text wos tronsloted
and shook humanity up wiHi the
realization that TO SERVE MAN
was a cook book — ! BILL YAKEY,
ANTHONY BOWKER & R. DAM-
ONITE wanted to get another
look at the extra-terrestrial
giant and if they now have
frightmares it will serve them
right!

®D§TI

OF
©l(o)G3 *

Old Spacemen never die.
Watch this space tor
Your Favorite Guy/

YOUR Favorite Guy!

Exeter!’— a spaceman to remember. JefF Morrow as the Mighty Mental
Monarch of Metaiana, world far from THIS ISLAND EARTH. Exeter: Master
of the Mutants, Mastermind behind the unrelenting Space War against
the Alien Enemies of Zahgon. Exeter: Spaceman Extraordinary.

This is the Place!— the space
reserved each issue for a
Two Page Spread of the kind
of special picture you like to
cut out and pin up in your
bedroom or booknook to give
it that Up-to-Tomorrow Look!

The Shapers of Things to
Come-— some of the Mighty
Machines of the Wellsian
World of 2036 AD, Amazing
Mechanisms to build the Won-
ders of the Space Age. This
Classic Miniature created by
Ned Mann in 1935 for THINGS
TO COME.

We’ve covered the world to uncover another out of-this-world collection of unusual magazine I
book jacket drawings relating to Space & Time and filmic adventures. A Sequel to the Featur
you liked so much last issue— “They Came from Other Space.”

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Mystery Man Exeter, Super Scientist of Metaluna, feels the pinch as
the Mad Mutant attacks on cover of Swedish magazine illustrating
Universal* International's 1955 hit. THIS ISLAND EARTH.

AMAZING

5 T O R i C S

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

This Outerspu

in^Mlr Leveled Cities— Ravaged Earth

BY HENRY SLESAR

Based on

Columbia Pictures'

Shock-Thriller

Harryhausen's famous Venusian ymir pictured by Amazing Artist.

These GRAVE-ROBBERS FROM OUTER SPACE appeared on this cover in 1939, nearly 20 years be-
fore the film of the same name (title later changed to PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE) was made.

The shape of THE THING as seen thru the Australian eyes of artist Safone Jais (left) and on the right by Malcolm Smith on American book jacket.

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Strange Pair! On the cover of this 1938 British magazine, artist Origin drew a metaific mon with
a human head; in Mexico, last year, they produced a thriller called ORLAK where the Frankenstein
creation had a human body and a radio-controlled metal head!

morrow’s great wonder, BUCK ROGERS,
is somehow overlooked. Let’s turn the
spotlight on this great hero again as
we zoom forth to the 25th century.

When filmic fighters of the planetary
beyond are discussed, it’s FLASH GOR-
DON in the person of Buster Crabbe,
who usually gets all the applause. To-

]bt Universal PkK

EXCLUSIVE

SPACEMEN

INTERVIEW

by SAM
SHERMAN

radio activates Regers

strange as it may seem, the 25th century
began for Buck with the creation of his era
in the 1920’s. The New Yorker magazine
took a deep look at this space age wonder
when it reviewed his radio program on De-
cember 22, 1934:

Buck Rogers began as a cartoon strip
about five years ago. Buck was an Ameri-
can soldier who was put to sleep by some
mysterious gas after the World War (the
first one) and woke up in the year 2400. He
spends his time in the daily cartoon strip
(and on the radio four times a week) flying
around the brave hew universe from planet
to planet accompanied by one Wilma Deer-
ing, a pal (not a sweetheart) . With them is
Dr. Huer who invents all kinds of mechan-
ical and chemical and psychic devices to
foil and if possible destroy. Killer Kane and
his pal, Ardala Valmar, who is a wretch.
Some of the contraptions are rocket pistols,
rocket ships, de-gravity belts, paralysis
rays, lightning guns, space suits (which
make it possible to step off into space with-
out getting hurt) and an electro-hypno
mentalaphone for reading the minds of vil-
lains and learning their dastardly plots.
Columbia Broadcasting studios use 25 dif-
ferent motors to imitate the various me-
chanical devices of Dr. Huer. The sound of
the psychic restriction ray, however, is
made by a Schick razor. Mr. John F. Dille,
who has his own syndicate, thought up
Buck. The cartoon strip is drawn by Dick
Calkins and written by Phil Nowlan.

“Zap!”

youVe disiniegrated

The original radio program featured Mat-
thew Crowley as Buck, Adele Ronson as
Wilma Deering and Edgar Stehli as Dr.
Huer. Yes, before the great movie serial.
Buck was pictured in newspaper strips and
heard on the radio. The kids went wild over
him! Buck’s products of all sorts domin-
ated the American scene. Sorry indeed was
the yotmgster who did not have his own
Buck Rogers “Rocket Pistol”. In one de-

Dove Sharpe (left) os Buddy and Eddie Park-
er as Buck leap Into a tight with Killer Kone's
crowd. This shot shows the two stunt aces
who performed the action the studio would
not allow Buster to do.

is&’m,

iWm

Buck's in a fix as Captain Lasea, played by Henry Brandon (right), turns Prince Tallen and the peo-
ple of Saturn against him.

partment store alone, 1500 were set loose
upon the world, the first day on sale. The
weapon was made of heavy metal in a su-
per-futuristic design. When the trigger was
pulled a snapping soimd described as “Zap”
was heard.

ihe tameras roll

Working with a favorite like this. Uni-
versal Studios saw a natural hit for the
movies. If they could obtain the world’s
foremost spaceman, Buster Crabbe, they
were set. So, after 30 episodes of FLASH
GORDON (in 2 serials), Buster became
BUCK ROGERS in a 12 chapter space
panorama.

After breaking the script down into epi-
sodic form, the production of the serial took

six weeks. Action dominated the film as 3
top stuntmen (famed for later Repubhc
serials) strutted their stuff. Dave Sharpe,
Eddie Parker and Tom Steele received the
jolts as they were joined by Roy Barcroft
and Kenne Dimcan (later Republic vil-
lains) this time as defenders of right. The
players in support of Buster as Buck Rog-
ers were Constance Ford as Wilma Deer-
ing, C. Montague Shaw as Dr. Huer, Jackie
Moran as Buddy and Anthony Warde as
KiUer Kane. In the stunt department, Ed-
die Parker doubled for Buster while Dave
Sharpe filled in for Jackie Moran. This
sounds quite amazing, as who has ever been
in better physical shape than Buster
Crabbe? However, even if he wanted to do
all his own stimting, the studio would not
permit it. They had quite a bit of money

Scott (Corleton Young) and his ray pistol mean sure disintegration
this fight.

Rogers if Buster loses

invested in him (as the central figure in this
production) so they had no plans of jeop-
ardizing their investment.

Buster’s views on Busk

Recently, I discussed stuntwork and oth-
er cinematic situations with Buster Crabbe,
who commented as follows:

SPACEMEN — “How did they determine
what action was to be doubled?”

BUSTER — “The further you got in the
picture, the more of a chance they were
taking of getting the star cracked up. The
result being, holding up production at a
good deal of added expense (production-
wise), or not being able to complete the
picture at all.”

SPACEMEN — “Thinking about today’s

space achievements, did people at the time
BUCK ROGERS was made, think these
films were the wildest, craziest things in the
world?”

BUSTER — “Yeah, (with a chuckle) a lit-
tle hit. But the films went over pretty well.”
SPACEMEN — “I notice Phillip Ahn was
cast as Prince Tallen, nder of Saturn. Was
there a specific reason for choosing an Ori-
ental actor for the role?”

BUSTER — “He’s Korean and you see him
a lot today. He’s turned out to be quite a
good actor. As far as the casting goes, who
knew just what a Saturnian should look
like anyway?”

SPACEMEN — “I wonder if you remember
how they did any of the special effects?”
BUSTER — “Oh sure. In some shots the
spaceships didn’t move, the background

MulKall) and Lieutenant Lacy (Kenne Duncan) discover the 20th century Buck
in a state of suspended animation in the 25th century.

Buddy Wade (Jackie Moran) and Buck Rogers find out
that their dirigible is about to crash on an icy Arctic
mountain.

moved as it was on a rotary drum. The spe-
cial effects men blew smoke around the
ship and once in a great while they’d swoop
one down. But the ships were hard to con-
trol because they were operated on a pendu-
lum rig. If the spaceships weren’t handled
just right, they looked phonier than they
actually were. Some of the attacks were
rigged using strings and with the smoke
covering up the faults, it didn’t look too
bad.”

SPACEMEN— “How big were the actual
miniature ships that were filmed?”
BUSTER— “On the average, about 10
inches.”

SPACEMEN— “Do you remember any-
thing about the ray guns?”

BUSTER— “You might be interested to
know that the ray effect was done by
scratching lines on the actual film frames.
The prop department at Universal dream-
ed up the space gun design by trying to
foUow the original comic strip drawings.”

one can defy gravity

There is no escape for Wilma Deering from these weird
creatures. Who are they?

SPACEMEN— “Who directed Buck Rog-
ers?”

BUSTER — ‘"The directors were Ford
Beebe and Saul Goodkind, a former film
editor. He was actually a cutter directing,
and he plaimed the editing as the film was
being shot.”

SPACEMEN — “How were the de-gravity
belt effects obtained?”

BUSTER — “Piano wire. We wore harnesses
the same as Mary Martin used as PETER
PAN. The only dangers being kinks, if one
formed, the wire would break. But there
were no broken necks, bones or anything
like that.”

SPACEMEN — “Where were the outdoor
scenes, that were supposed to take place
on other planets, shot?”

BUSTER— “Mostly at Chatsworth, Red
Rock Canyon and the Mojave Desert, all
of them not too far from the studios in
California.”

SPACEMEN — “Was there much promo-
tion and touring with films like BUCK
ROGERS?”

BUSTER — “Oh sure, just because it was a
serial is no reason why they shouldn’t pub-
licize it. 'The serials made more money for
the studios than a lot of their big pictures.
A three-quarter million dollars production
budget was spent on the first FLASH GOR-
DON, but it paid off in big dividends.”
SPACEMEN — “When a serial was made,

Buster Crabbe o$ Buck Rogers, the hero of tomorrow who climbed to popularity heights never be-
fore achieved.

Buster demonstrates the "25th century slam" as he
do¥ms one of Killer Kane's men.

Dr. Huer and his assistants prepare their ray machine
for immediate action.

were Cliffhanger scenes shot two or three
ways to get the hero out of peril for the
next chapter?”

BUSTER — “Yes, serials were always shot
that way. For example: a man is shown
actually falling off a cliff — cut — that’s the
end of one episode. Then for the next chap-
ter, they pick up showing him roll down
and then grab something to save himself.
They cheat a little so that he never actual-
ly fell off. You know, I was a serial fan
even before I got into pictures and I’ll nev-
er forget the trickery they used then to
save the hero.”

SPACEMEN — “Do you enjoy watching
your own features & serials today?”
BUSTER — “I’m critical of them. Some of
the ones I enjoyed working in, I enjoy
watching. I often wonder though, why I
did the scene the way I did. But sometimes,
after not seeing a picture for a long time
and thinking it’s very poor, I’m pleasantly
surprised.”

SPACEMEN — “Back in 1952, you had an
ABC-TV show on which BUCK ROGERS
and some of your other films were run. Was
there much of a fan club connected with
the films and this show?”

BUSTER— “You bet! We had BUSTER’S
BUDDIES clubs and there were 35,000
members in the New York area alone. The
kids loved the serials and these films are
still the type of entertainment they’d like
a lot today.”

They certainly are the type of entertain-
ment that everybody enjoys, if Buster
Crabbe is the star. He’s the man who
brought a new dimension to the chapter
play — acting! We believed in Buck and the
other characters Buster played, because his
acting convinced us that a situation was
really desperate. Even in the fantastic-fu-
turistic settings, the conflicts became real.
These were the only films of their kind;
they can never be recreated!

In next issue’s concluding installment,
we’ll return with the movie story of BUCK
ROGERS. What happens when Buck is
made a helpless robot slave of the filament
ray helmet? Can Killer Kane destroy
Buck’s hidden city and thus rule the Earth?
Is Saturn the planet where enemies or
friends dwell? Who are the horrible Zugg
men? And what is the story behind the
failure of a 1950 BUCK ROGERS TV series
without Buster Crabbe? You’ll find out the
answers to these questions, and much more,
as we return with the 25th century and
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S UDDENLY, it was there. There
•wasn’t time to blink or speak or get
scared. Click Hathaway’s camera was
loaded and he stood there listening to it
rack-spin film between his fingers, and
he knew he was getting a great, picture
of everything that was happening.

The picture of Marnagan hunched
huge over the control-console, wrench-
ing levers, jamming studs with freckled
fists. And out in the dark of the fore-
part there was space and a star-sprink-
ling and this meteor coming like blazing
fury.

Click Hathaway felt the ship move
under him like a sensitive animal’s skin.
And then the meteor hit. It made a
spiked fist and knocked the rear-jets fiat,
and the ship spun like a cosmic merry-
go-round.

There was plenty of noise. Too much.
Hathaway only knew he was picked up
and hurled against a lever-bank, and
that Marnagan wasn’t long in following,
swearing loud words. Click remembered

hanging to his camera and gritting to
keep holding it. What a sweet shot that
had been of the meteor! A sweeter one
still of Marnagan beating the controls
and keeping his words to himself until
just now.

It got quiet. It got so quiet you could
almost hear the asteroids rushing up,
cold blue and hard. You could hear your
heart kicking a tom-tom between your
sick stomach and your empty lungs.

Stars, asteroids revolved. Click grab-
bed Marnagan because he was the near-
est thing, and held on. You came hunt-
ing for a space-raider and you ended up
cradled in a slab-sized Irishman’s arms,
diving at a h unk of metal death. What
a fade-out!

“Irish!” he heard himself say. “Is this
IT?”

“Is this what?" yelled Marnagan in-
side his helmet.

"Is this where the Big Producer yells
CUT!?”

Marnagan fumed. “Fll die when I’m
good and ready. And when I’m ready
I’ll inform you and you can picture me
profile for Cosmic Films!”

They both waited, thrust against the
shipside and held by a hand of gravity;
listening to each other’s breathing hard
in the earphones.

The ship struck, once. Bouncing, it
struck again. It turned end over and
stopped. Hathaway felt himself grabbed;
he and Marnagan rattled around — ^hu-
man dice in a croupier’s cup. The shell
of the ship burst, air and energy flung
out.

Hathaway screamed the air out of his
lungs, but his brain was thinking quick
crazy, unimportant things. The best
scenes in life never reach film, or an
audience. Like this one, blast it! Like
this one! His brain spun, racketing like
the instantaneous, flicking motions of his
camera.

r^ILENCE came and
J engulfed all the
noise, ate it up and
swallowed it. Hath-
away shook his head,
instinctively grabbed
at the camera locked
to his mid-belt. There
was nothing but stars,
twisted wreckage, cold
that pierced thru his vac-suit, and silence.
He wriggled out of the wreckage into
that silence.

He didn’t know what he was doing
until he found the camera in his fingers
as if it had grown there when he was
bom. He stood there, thinking “WeU,
m at least have t few good scenes on
film. I’ll — ”

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A hunk of metal teetered, fell with a
crash. Marnagan elevated seven feet of
bellowing manhood from the wreck.

“Hold it!” cracked Hathaway’s high
voice. Marnagan froze. The camera whir-
red. “Low angle shot; Interplanetary Pa-
trolman emerges unscathed from aste-
roid crackup. Swell stuff. I’ll get a raise
for this!”

“From the toe of me boot!” snarled
Marnagan brusquely. Oxen shoulders
flexed inside his vac-suit. “I might’ve
died in there, and you nursin’ that
film-contraption!”

Hathaway felt funny inside, suddenly.
“I never thought of that. Marnagan die?
I just took it for granted you’d come
through. You always have. Funny, but
you don’t think about dying. You try not
to.” Hathaway stared at his gloved hand,
but the gloving was so thick and heavy
he couldn’t tell if it was shaking. Muscles
in his bony face went down, pale.
"Where are we?”

“A million miles from nobody.”

They stood in the middle of a ’pocked,
time-eroded meteor plain that stretched
off, dipping down into silent indigo and
a rash of stars. Overhead, the sun pois-
ed; black and stars all around it, making
it look sick.

“If we walk in opposite directions.
Click Hathaway, we’d be shaking hands
the other side of this rock in two hours.”
Marnagan shook his mop of dusty red
hair. “And I prwnised the boys at Luna
Base this time I’d capture that Gunther
lad!”

His voice stopped and the silence
spoke.

Hathaway felt his heart pumping
slow, hot piunps of blood. "I checked
my oxygen, Irish. Sixty minutes of
breathing left.”

The silence punctuated that sentence,
too. Upon the sharp meteoric rocks
Hathaway saw the tangled insides of the
radio, the food supply mashed and scat-
tered. They were lucky to have escaped.
Or was suffocation a better death. . . ?
Sixty minutes.

They stood and looked at one another.

“Blast that meteor!” said Marnagan,
hotly.

Hathaway got hold of an idea; re-
membering something. He said it out:
“Somebody tossed that meteor, Irish. I
look a picture of it, looked it right in
the eye when it rolled at us, and it was
poker-hot. Space-meteors are never hot
and glowing. If it’s proof you want, I’ve
got it here, on film.”

Marnagan winced his freckled square
of face. “It’s not proof we need now,
Click. Oxygen. And then food. And then
some way back to Earth.”

Hathaway went on saying his

thoughts: “This is Gunther’s work. He’s
here somewhere, probably laughing his
guts out at the job he did us. Oh, God,
this would make great news-release stuff
if we ever get back to Earth. I.P.’s Irish
Marnagan, temporarily indisposed by a
pirate whose dirty face has never been
seen, Gunther by name, finally wins
through to a triumphant finish. Photo-
graphed on the spot, in color, by yours
truly, Click Hathaway. Cosmic Films,
please notice.”

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EY started walk-
. ing, fast, over the
pocked, rubbled plain
toward a bony ridge
of metal. They kept
their eyes wide and
awake. There wasn’t
much to see, but it
was better than stand-
ing still, waiting.

Marnagan said, “We’re working on
margin, and we got nothin’ to sweat with
except your suspicions about this not
being an accident. We got 50 minutes
to prove you’re right. After that — right
or wrong — you’ll be Cosmic Films pret-
tiest unmoving, unbreathin’ genius. But
talk all you like, Click. It’s times like
this when we all need words, any woids,
on our tongues. You got your camera
and your scoop. Talk about it. As for
me — ” he twisted his glossy red face.
“Keeping alive is me hobby. And this
sort of two-bit death I did not order.”

Click nodded. “Gunther knows how
you’d hate dying this way, Irish. It’s
irony clean through. That’s probably why
he planned the meteor and the crash
this way.”

Marnagan said nothing, but his thick
lips went down at the corners, far down,
and the green eyes blazed.

They stopped, together.

“Oops!” Click said.

“Hey!” Marnagan blinked. “Did you
feel that?”

Hathaway’s body felt feathery, light
as a whisper, boneless and limbless, sud-
denly. “Irish! ‘We lost weight, coming
over that ridge!”

They ran back. “Let’s try it again.”

They tried it. They scowled at each
other. The same thing happened. “Grav-
ity should not act this way. Click.”

“Are you telling me? It’s man-made.
Better than that — ^it’s Gunther! No won-
der we fell so fast — ^we were dragged
down by a super-gravity set-up! Gun-
ther’d do anything to — did I say any-
thing?”

Hathaway leaped backward in reac-
tion. His eyes widened and his hand
came up, jabbing. Over a bill-ridge
swarmed a brew of unbelievable hor-
rors, Progeny from Frankenstein’s Ark.
Immense crimson beasts with numerous
legs and gnashing mandibles, brown-
black creatures, some tubular and fat,
others like thin white poisonous whips
slashing along in the' Fangs caught
starlight t^ite on them.

Hathaway yelled and ran, Marnagan
at his heels, lumbering. Sweat broke
cold on his body. The immense things
roiled, slithered and squirmed after him.

A blast of light. Marnagan, firing his
proton-gun. Then, in Click’s ears, the
Irishman’s incredulous bellow. The gun
didn’t hurt the creatures at all.

“Irish!” Hathaway flung himself over
the ridge, slid down an incline toward
the mouth of a small cave. ‘This way,
fella!”

Hathaway made it first, Marnagan bel-
lowing just behind him. 'They’re too
big; they can’t get us in here!” Click’s
voice gasped it out, as Marnagan squeez-
ed his 250 pounds beside- him. Instinc-
tively, Hathaway added, “Asteroid mon-
sters! My camera! What a scene!”

“Forget your camera!” yelled Marna-
gan. "They might come in!”

“Use your gun.”

“They got impervious hides. No use.
Gahh! And that was a pretty chase, eh.
Click?”

“Yeah. Sure. You enjoyed it, every
moment of it.”

“I did that.” Irish grinned, showing
white uneven teeth. “Now, what will we
be doing with these uninvited guests at
our door?”

“Let me think — ”

“Lots of time, little man. Forty more
minutes of air, to be exact.”

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T hey sat, staring
at the monsters
for about a minute.
Hathaway felt funny
about something; did-
n’t know what. Some-
thing about these
monsters and Gunther
and —

“Which one will
you be having?” asked Irish, casually.
“A red one or a blue one?”

Hathaway laughed nervously. “A pink
one with yellow ruffles — Good God, now
you've got me doing it. Joking in the

face of death.”

“Me father taught me; keep laughing
and you’ll have Irish luck.”

That didn’t please the photographer.
“I’m an Anglo-Swede,” he pointed out.

Marnagan shifted uneasily. “Here,
now. You’re doing nothing but sitting,
looking like a little boy locked in a
bedroom closet, so take me a profile
shot of the beasties and myself.”

■Hathaway petted his camera reluc-
tantly. “What’s the use? All this swell
film shot. Nobody’ll ever see- it.”

“Then,” retorted Marnagan, “we’ll de-
velop it for our own benefit; while wait-
in’ for the U.S. Cavalry to come riding
over the hill to our rescue!”

Hathaway snorted. “U.S. Cavalry.”

Marnagan raised his proton-gun dra-
matically. “Snap me this pose,” he said.
“I paid your salary to trot along, pho-
tographing, we hoped, my capture of
Gunther, now the least you can do is
record peace negotiations betwixt me
and these pixies.”

Marnagan wasn’t fooling anybody.
Hathaway knew the superficial palaver
for nothing but a covering over the fast,
furious thinking running around in that
red-cropped skull. Hathaway played the
palaver, too, but his mind was whirring
46

faster than his camera as he spun a pic-
ture of Marnagan standing there with a
useless gun pointed at the animals.

Montage. Marnagan sitting, chatting
at the monsters. Marnagan smiling for
the camera. Marnagan in profile. Marna-
gan looking grim, without much effort,
for the camera. And then, a close-up of
the thrashing death wall that holed them
in. Click took them all, those shots, not
saying anything. Nobody fooled nobody
with this act. Death was near and they
had sweaty faces, dry mouths and fro-
zen guts.

When Click finished filming, Irish sat
down to save oxygen, and used it up
arguing about Gunther. Click came back
at him;

“Gunther drew us down here, sure as
Ceres! That gravity change we felt back
on that ridge, Irish; that proves it. Gim-
ther’s short on men. So, what’s he do;
he builds an asteroid-base, and drags
ships down. Space war isn’t perfect yet,
guns don’t prime true in space, trajectory
is lousy over long distances. So what’s
the best weapon, which dispenses with
losing valuable, rare ships and a small
bunch of men? Super-gravity and a cou-
ple of well-tossed meteors. Saves all
around. It’s‘a good front, this iron peb-
ble. From it, Gunther strikes unseen;
ships simply crash, that’s all. A subtle
hand, with all aces.”

Marnagan rumbled. “Where is the
dirty rat, then!”

“He didn’t have to appear, Irish. He
sent — them.” Hathaway nodded at the
beasts. “People crashing here die from
air-lack, no food, or from wounds
caused at the crackup. If they survive
all that — the animals tend to them. It
all looks like Nature was responsible.
See how subtle his attack is? Looks .like
accidental death instead of murder, if
the Patrol happens to land and finds us.
No reason for undue investigation,
then.”

T don’t see no Base around.”

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A “Still doubt it?
Okay. Look.” He tap-
ped bis camera and a
spool popped out on-
to his gloved palm.
Holding it up, he
stripped it out to its
full 20" length, held
it to the light while
it developed, smiling. It was one of his
best inventions. Self developing film. The
first light struck film-surface, destroyed
one chemical, leaving imprinrs; the sec-
ond exposure simply hardened, secured
the impressions. Quick stuff.

Inserting the film-tongue into a micro-
viewer in the camera’s base. Click hand-
ed the whole thing over. “Look.”

Marnagan put the viewer up against
the helmet glass, squinted. “Ah, Click.
Now, now. This is one lousy film you
invented.”

. “Huh?”

“It’s a strange process’ll develop my
picture and ignore the asteroid monsters
complete.”

“What!”

Hathaway grabbed the camera, gasp-
ed, squinted, and»gasped again: Pictures
in montage; Marnagan sitting down,
chatting conversationaly with nothing;
Marnagan shooting his gun at nothing;
Marnagan pretending to be happy in
front of nothing.

Then, close-up — of — ^N OTHIN G !

The monsters had failed to image the
film. Marnagan was there, his hair like
a red banner, his freckled face with
the blue eyes bright in it. Maybe —

Hathaway said it, loud; “Irish! Irish!

I think I see a way out of this mess!
Here — ”

He elucidated it over and over again
to the Patrolman. About the film, the
beasts, and how the film couldn’t be
wrong. If the film said the monsters
weren’t there, they weren’t there.

“Yeah,” said Marnagan. “But step
outside this cave — ”

“It my theory is correct I’ll do it, un-
fraid,” said Click.

Marnagan scowled. “You sure them
beasts don’t radiate ultra-violet or infra-
red or something that won’t come out
on film?”

“Nuts! Any color we see, the camera
sees. We’ve been fooled.”

“Hey, where you going?” Marnagan
blocked Hathaway as the smaller man
tried pushing past him.

“Get oui of the way,” said Hathaway.

Marnagan put his big fists on his hips.
“If anyone is going anywhere, it’ll be me
does the going.”

“I can’t let you do that, Irish.”

“Why not?”

“You’d be going on my say-so.”

“Ain’t your say-so good enough for
me?”

“Yes. Sure. Of course. I guess — ”

“If you say them animals ain’t there,
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film developing flea, and let an Irishman
settle their bones.” He took an unneces-
sary hitch in trousers that didn’t exist
except under an inch of porous metal
plate. “Your express purpose on this
voyage, Hathaway, is taking films to be
used by the Patrol later for teaching
Junior Patrolmen how to act in tough
spots. First hand education. Poke an-
other spool of film in that contraption
and give me profile a scan. This is les-
son number seven: Daniel Walks Into
The Lion’s Den.”

“Irish, I — ”

“Shut up and load up.”

Hathaway nervously loaded the film-
slot, raised it.

“Ready, Click?”

“I — I guess so,” said Hathaway. “And
remember, think it hard, Irish. Think it
hard. There aren’t. any animals — ”

“Keep me in focus, lad.”

“All the way, Irish.”

“What do they say . . .? Oh, yeah.
Action. Lights. Camera!”

Marnagan held his gun out in front
of him and still smiling took one, two,
three, four steps out into the outside
world. The monsters were waiting for
him at the fifth step. Marnagan kept
walking.

Right out into the middle of them. . . .

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and out of the lives
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shock masterpieces.
Here are stories of
terror from the
lingering horrors of
ancient Egypt to
the unnamed mon-
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cold and the tropic
jungle.

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When a sea captain
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Weird tales by Rob-
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pieces in maga-
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has won the "Hugo"
trophy for the year's
best short story,
the Edgar Allan Poe
Special Award of
the Mystery Writers
of America.

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Zacherley’s own
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brew of ghouls,
vampires, ghosts &
creatures as horri-
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want to meet— with
special cheering
notes on each from
old Zach himseif.

chill the blood. Like
the hero of The
Other Passenger,
you suddenly feel
beyond the yellow
circle of your read-
something waiting,
waiting to pourice.
The bristles on the
back of your neck

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are tipped with lovely pink traps — colorful
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DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR DOBBS,
COLONIAL GOVERNOR
AND NATURALIST
On Jan. 24,

T760, Governor
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. . the great-
est wonder of

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kingdom it a » .

EATS FLIES AND INSECTS! Each pink trap con- |
tains a bit of nectar. It is this color and
sweetness which attracts the unsuspecting in-
sect. Once he enters the trap, it snaps shut.
Digestive juices then dissolve him. When the
insect has been completely absorbed, the trap
reopens and prettily awaits another insect! V

Unwary intect toochot $en«iiivo hoin, cousing trap to
shut. Plant then dissolves & digests insect. Trap will bite
at (but will NOT bile off) more then it can chew— such as
a Hnger or a pencil. In a few days> after eating an insect,
it will reopen for mere feed.

unknown species

. . . Upon anything touching the leaves
they instantly close like a spring trap
... It bears a white flower; to this
surprising plant I have given the name

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FEED IT RAW BEEF! If there are no insects in
your house, you can feed the traps tiny slivers
of raw beef. The plant will thrive on such
food. When there is no food for the traps,
the plant will feed normally through its root
system.

ADMIRED BY
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BOTANIST
1875 Profes-

nus Fly Trap,'
from the rapid- ■VJk
ity and force of
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separate sections that fasten together into
one solid unit. The outer section is com-
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SHELL with full-coior U.S. Air Force in-
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the head, & has aluminum face frame, cork
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which has 3 steel clamps to fasten the in-
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